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• 17%

  Released with multiple years left on his deal

  (99 votes)

• 10%

  Traded to another team along with $80M

  (61 votes)

• 37%

  Pitches well enough to have an ERA in the high-4s, low-5s for the rest of his contract

  (207 votes)

• 3%

  Regains his velocity and confidence to be the Cy Zito of yore

  (21 votes)

• 4%

  Becomes a lefty-specialist who pitches 1/3rd of an inning every other day

  (25 votes)

• 3%

  Retires

  (21 votes)

• 7%

  Gets injured and never really returns. See: Mike Hampton

  (42 votes)

• 12%

  It ends with the falconmaster and the woman in the dress of flames. Long they have traveled. Long they have suffered. When their work is complete, the world will be complete, just as it will be nothingness. Before the void consumes us all, Zito walks two

  (70 votes)

• 2%

  Zito pitches well enough to get traded without a stack of cash. Notice how I saved the most ridiculous for the last option

  (12 votes)